Formação sócio-espacial do litoral de Santa Catarina (Brasil): gênese e transformações recentes

Abstract

This work is based in the paradigm of socio-spatial formation (SANTOS, 1979), in the theory of the Brazilian duality proposed by I. Rangel (1957), associated to the theoretical perspective developed by A. Mamigonian (1966 and 1986), that highlights the role of the small commercial production in the socioeconomic dynamics of the colonial areas of southern Brazil. The method used joins dialectically nature and society, and at the same time promotes the intercrossing of general and specific circumstances in an approach of a global nature, through which the whole social formation is understood as spatial and temporally determined.
The theme was chosen because of its geographical nature and the need to further develop analyses and discussions about genesis, evolution and transformations that have been rapidly affecting the urban areas and fishing communities of Santa Catarina's (Brazil) coastland, subjected to the pressures resulting from increasing tourism, during the past decades. This new dynamics calls for the development of studies that lead to the identification of the natural and human "multiple determinations" (MARX, 1983) that, along time and in different degrees, shaped Santa Catarina's coastal socio-spatial organization, currently subjected to growing socioeconomic and environmental strain.